Fabric-smoothing attachment for looms.



PATENTED JULY 19, 1904 B. GOLDSMITH. FABRIC SMOOTHING ATTACHMENT FOR LOOMS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT ()FFICE.

ELIAS GOLDSMITH, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OTTO'ANDREAE, JR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FABFHC-SMOOTHING ATTACHMENT FOR LOOIVIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.'765,237, dated July 19, 1904. Application filed July 16, 1903. Serial No- 165,852. (No model.)

To all whom it may, concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIAs GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Fabric- Smoothing Attachment for Looms, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to an attachment for looms for preventing the silk, cloth, or other fabric from wrinkling or creasing as it is wound on the cloth-roll.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient device adapted to be readily applied to and removed from a loom and capable of straightening the cloth, silk, or other material and of smoothing out the wrinkles thereof, whereby the material will be caused to run smoothly on the cloth-roll.

A further object of the invention is to provide a resilient automatically-adjustable device of this character capable of yielding and expanding as the material on the cloth-roll of a loom increases in diameter and adapted to frictionally engage the material to guide the samein a smooth condition to the cloth-roll.

The invention also has for its object to provide a guiding and smoothing device which will be automatically supported by the material and which will be maintained by the same in its proper frictional engagement.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claimsmay be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a loom provided with an attachment constructed in accordance with this invention and arranged in position for guiding the material to the cloth-roll for smoothing out the wrinkles and creases before the material is wound around the cloth-roll itself. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the de ice.

Like numerals of reference desig' Late corresponding parts in all the figures of ,he drawings.

l designates an approximately cylindrical shell or casing designed to curl or lap partially around the cloth-r0112 of a loom; but it may extend substantially around the same, if desired, the attachment being adapted to be varied in size to adapt it to the character of the material operated on and to enable the same to be delivered to the cloth-roll in a perfectly-smooth condition devoid of all creases and wrinkles. The curved shell or casing, which may be constructed of metal, paper, cloth, leather, or any other flexible or resilient material, is provided at its inner side with an extension 4, forming a support for the body or curved portion of the attachment and designed to be secured to a bar at the front of the loom, preferably to the brake-bar 5, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings; but any other suitable means may be employed for mounting the device-or attachment in position. The attachment is detachably secured to the loom to enable it to be readily applied thereto and removed therefrom, and although bolts 6 are shown in the accompanying drawings for fastening the attachment to the brakebar yet it will be clear that any other fastening means may be employed for this purpose.

The attachment is located beneath the bottom steel roll 7, the silk, cloth, or other material from the loom being passed in the usual manner beneath a top steel roll 8 and around a sandpaper roll 9. The silk or cloth passes under the top steel roll from the front and is then carried to the sandpaper roll, from which it passes to the said bottom steel roll 7 The brake-bar is located at a point below the bottom steel roll, and the attachment extends downward and rearward at an inclination, as shown in Fig. 2, and it is located in advance of that portion of the cloth or silk between the bottom steel roll and the cloth-roll. The curved expansible engaging and guiding portion of the attachment is arranged beneath the outer lap of the silk or cloth on the clothroll, and it has smooth inner and outer engaging faces, which are presented to the material and which are adapted to smooth out all creases and wrinkles, whereby the material is delivered in a perfectly-smooth condition to the cloth-roll. The curved annular shell or casing may extend completely around the clothroll when the cloth or silk is first attached to the same and before the cloth or silk is wound around the said cloth-roll, and the curved or annular portion which envelops the material on the roll is adapted to expand automatically as the diameter of the clothroll and the material thereon increases. The frict'nnal engagement of the attachment with the m. .teriahtogether with the smooth surfaces of the device, straightens and smooths out the materiz removing all wrinkles and creases from th same. As the attachment is interposed be gween the outer lap of material and the roll, it is supported and maintained in proper frictional engagement by the material, and a greax variety of materials may be employed in the construction of the device owing to this support, it being only necessary for such material to be yielding or flexible and to present smooth inner and outer faces.

It will be seen that the attachment is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to a loom, and that a smooth inner concave surface is presented to and is always in frictional contact with the outer surface of the silk or cloth on the cloth-roll, while the outer convex face of the attachment is always in frictional contact with the inner surface of the silk or cloth as the same is rolled on the cloth-roll. It will also be clear that the crease-preventing loom attachment may be readily removed from a loom and that it will adjust itself to the diameter of the clothroll, so that any number of yards may be wound on the same. Furthermore, it will be apparent that the loom attachment is constructed of a single sheet of material which is curled or rolled at one end to provide the curved approximately cylindrical portion, which is concentric with the cloth-roll.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a cloth-roll, of a smoothing attachment arranged to guide the material to the cloth-roll and engaging the said material on the roll for smoothing the creases and wrinkles from the material before it is wound on the roll and preventing the material from wrinkling thereon, substantially as described.

2. The combination with the cloth-roll of a loom, of a smoothing attachment receiving and guiding the material to the cloth-roll and arranged within the folds of the material, and automatically adjustable to accommodate itself to the size of the roll of material, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the cloth-roll of a loom, of a smoothing attachment receiving and guiding the material on the cloth-roll and yieldably embracing and engaging the roll and the material thereon, wherebyit is adapted to smooth out the creases and wrinkles before the material is wound on the cloth-roll, and is capable of preventing the material from wrinkling thereon, substantially as described.

4:. An attachment for looms provided with a curved portion arranged concentric with the cloth-roll and engaging the material thereon and adapted to smooth out the creases and wrinkles from the material before the same is wound on the cloth-roll, substantially as described.

5. An attachment for looms provided with a yieldable curved portion arranged substantially concentric with the cloth-roll, and forming a guide for the material and adapted to remove the creases and wrinkles therefrom before the material is wound on the clothroll, substantially as described.

6. An attachment for looms provided with a flexible portion arranged substantially concentric with the cloth-roll of a loom and interposed between two of the laps of the material and frictionally engaging the same, substantially as described.

7. An attachment for looms comprising a curved automatically-adjustable guiding and smoothing device arranged beneath the outermost lap of the material on the cloth-roll and constructed of flexible material, substantially as described.

8. An attachment for looms provided with a flexible automatieally-adjustable portion arranged within the fold of the material on the cloth-roll, and frictionallyengaging the inner face of the outermost lap and the adjacent face of the material beneath the said lap, substantially as described.

9. An attachment for looms provided with an annular portion or shell arranged to engage the material on the cloth-roll, and located beneath'the outermost lap of the said material, substantially as described.

10. An attachment for looms provided with an approximately cylindrical shell designed to envelop the cloth-roll, and arranged to frictionally engage the material as the same is wound on the roll, whereby the creases and wrinkles are removed from the said material, said shell being adapted to move outwardly away from the roll as the latter increases in diameter, substantially as described.

11. An attachment for looms, comprising an upper supporting portion, and a lower approximately cylindrical guiding and smoothing portion arranged to encircle the cloth-roll, substantially as described.

12. An attachment for looms, comprising an upper supporting portion, and a lower approx- 14:. In combination with the cloth-roll, the smoothing attachment arranged to guide the material to and smooth the said material on the said roll, comprising an attaching portion to hold it rigidly in place, and the curved expansible portion embracing the material on the said roll, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ELIAS GOLDSMITH.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL S. THOMAS, Jr., J. PEARSON WILLIAMS. 

